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...that Liddy has been treated is bound to undermine whatever spirit of voluntarism exists among executives in the private sector who will be called on in the future to help the federal government when it has critical and particular needs...
...Originally, such issues were handled by the danwei, the work units to which Chinese employees were once closely bound, says Zhou Hanhua, a scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The danwei supervised workers' lives down to marriage and childbirth, and prevented people from engaging in unregulated enterprises on the side. The decline of China's state-owned enterprises in the 1990s precipitated the breakdown of the danwei system. At the same time the country grew increasingly urbanized, and millions of migrant workers poured into big cities. "The traditional system could no longer manage," Zhou says. "The chengguan were...
...third lesson, and perhaps the most pertinent, is that spending so much money in such a short time is bound to be wasteful. "Every village wanted to have the same dog kennel," jokes Klaus F. Zimmermann, president of the Berlin-based German Institute for Economic Research (known by its German acronym, DIW). East Germany today has a number of promising industries and state-of-the-art roads and railways, but it also has superfluous airports, oversized water-treatment plants and a collection of heavily subsidized industrial white elephants, all built at the taxpayers' expense. "Floodlit sheep meadows," grumbles Reiner Holznagel...
...plane to the Maldives, tourists sigh about the luxury resorts and sun-dappled beaches to which they are bound. From above, the country's coral-fringed lagoons in the Indian Ocean look computer-generated: arrayed in turquoise pods, they stretch over an azure expanse that would span from Rome to Budapest. Ibn Battuta, the 14th century Arab explorer, hailed the archipelago as "one of the wonders of the world." Ever since, the Maldives has enchanted shipwrecked sailors, Hollywood celebrities and Russian oligarchs fortunate enough to wash up by its shores. Yet beneath this outsiders' vision of paradise lurks a more...
...talking your ordinary PB&J-station-with-windfall-fruit brain break. We're talking themed ones, maybe with birthday hats or paper plates in special shapes or leather-bound menus in the future...